I think there is a higher level to engage here, specifically with regard to the idea of karma. Yes, the experience itself is only this fraction of a moment, this "knife's edge" so to speak. With a trained, disciplined mind, one can see the "frames" of vibrations at the fundamental levels of the Universe experience. However, there are more properties to reality than this knife's edge single frame.
"Zooming in" too closely is like having my nose too close to a painting. What's so special about starry night? I just see blobs of paint. I had to learn to refocus, and train my mind to do so rather swiftly, like an animator "scrubbing" a scene. In fact, we are going to borrow a lot of ideas like this, so polymaths, get warmed up.

We have to break down this Universe into four quadrants, four distinct properties of the Universe (Mu) first as a whole, then independently and then simultaneously.
Try, instead of zooming in towards the knife's edge, doing the opposite. Your body only experiences time in one way, the “time's arrow” but your mind of course is much more powerful. This “now” didn't just happenstance its way into existence. There were proceeding causes and conditions that allowed it naturally to unfold into being. Karma.
I have to go slow sometimes, look at just the moment before this one: am I dreaming? No, this is real, there is this experience happening. I just lit one candle with another one. How did I get here? Oh yeah, I walked in after getting a glass of water. From the fridge. After I got home from work. I brought the candles in from the other room, where we keep them.
Then I speed it up. I'm posting from my laptop in my home. I'm here at this house because I live here. I live here because I married my wife. I came to this city with my brother. I came to this state because my dad moved our family here. I was born in California because that's where my parents were living at the time.
Go faster. parents, grand-parents, generations stretching back 10,000 years. Common ancestors. Mammals. Pre-mammalian life. Ocean only life. Fish only. Multi celled organisms only. Single celled organisms only. Primordial sludge. This is all leading up to me and my candle.
Faster still, scale upwards exponentially. No life, only elements: fire water earth and sky. Volcanoes, oceans, an Earth tearing itself apart, growing pains for the Eden to come. Still, ALL of this had to happen EXACTLY as it did for this one karma of our candle to come to fruition.
Again, we aren't done. The Earth itself, new and rocky. Raw. A collision causes our moon.
Before even that, dust clouds, settling in silent space for billions of years.
Before even that, a great expanse of energy and mass, the formations of stars, galaxies, stellar nucleosynthesis. The very birth of the elements. Emptiness itself becoming form as energy slows it's vibrations down into matter, spreading across the vast nothingness of space. The very yin of the universe fighting yang. I'm not being poetic, this is what had to come into being for my candle transfer.
And still, before matter itself, only energy. And energy guided by Law, the fundamental Laws of the Universe, applied to this force outwards.
At the beginning, the big bang. I mean, it had to happen somehow, we are here having this experience in the here and now. Cogito ergo sum. There is at least someone WATCHING this movie, yes? So trace it back in mind. If you don't believe in free will, you don't have a choice in the matter, I've already planted the seed in your Mind. ;)
Now, when we get back to that big bang, what can we assume about it, knowing that it had to end up like it is here and now, 2014? Well, actually, the year is more like 13,798,002,014 at the scale we are working with. Start “scrubbing” from year 0 to year 13,798,002,014 just for funsies.
What is always there? I mean, after the nothing, the something. The very first somethings. I'd like to hear what your response is before I lay all my cards out on the table.